//podcastplus.net/feed/the-losaltospolitico-com-podcast~b85784f7 Los Altos, California - news and analysis about our fair city and fine schools Mon, 04 May 2026 17:14:41 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/azxnnt/190425_TrimLUFS16.mp3 Hear the Los Altos School District trustees explain why they agree that on April 29 they will effectively vote NO on the tentative 10-year agreement with the Bullis Charter School. This podcast is last 30 minutes of the April 25, 2019, Los Altos School District special board meeting. You can hear them pullback that  Prop 39 offer crafted this past January. That offer would place BCS not only on Egan and Blach as they are now, but add space at Loyola. It would include true reasonably equivalent sharing of outdoor and indoor specialized spaces - much more sharing than now at Egan and Blach. Instead, the trustees are going to ask Bullis Charter School to accept the "interim facilities" per the 10-year agreement for a year or two. Here are some time markers for the Board Discussion 0:00 Board of Trustees President Jessica Speiser leads setting the stage. 5:50 Steve Taglio - I'm ok with it if it includes no enrollment growth at BCS 6:45 Bryan Johnson - invites a BCS board member to attend the Ap 29 L... Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:00:50 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/azxnnt/190425_TrimLUFS16.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/azxnnt/190425_TrimLUFS16.mp3 Hear the Los Altos School District trustees explain why they agree that on April 29 they will effectively vote NO on the tentative 10-year agreement with the Bullis Charter School. This podcast is last 30 minutes of the April 25, 2019, Los Altos School District special board meeting. You can hear them pullback that  Prop 39 offer crafted this past January. That offer would place BCS not only on Egan and Blach as they are now, but add space at Loyola. It would include true reasonably equivalent sharing of outdoor and indoor specialized spaces - much more sharing than now at Egan and Blach. Instead, the trustees are going to ask Bullis Charter School to accept the "interim facilities" per the 10-year agreement for a year or two. Here are some time markers for the Board Discussion 0:00 Board of Trustees President Jessica Speiser leads setting the stage. 5:50 Steve Taglio - I'm ok with it if it includes no enrollment growth at BCS 6:45 Bryan Johnson - invites a BCS board member to attend the Ap 29 L... Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:00:50 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/azxnnt/190425_TrimLUFS16.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nw37mh/LASD2019Ap8Trustees_Lloudness16.mp3 After hearing 42 persons give public comment on the proposal - with only 3  speakers supporting the proposal as written - the trustees explain their current thinking of the pros and cons of the 10-year proposal. Only Trustee Vladamir Ivanovic is totally nay!.  The crowd cheered and applauded his pugnacious fighting words again and again. Here are some time markers for you 0:15  Trustee Steve Taglio 4:00  Trustee Vladamir Ivanovich - with much rabble rousing crowd participation 12:45  Trustee Shali Sirkay 17: 25 Trustee Bryan Johnson 23:15 Trustee and board president, Jessica Speiser 27:50 Superintendent Jeff Baier - endorsing anti-charter Sacramento bills in progress  Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:43:07 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/nw37mh/LASD2019Ap8Trustees_Lloudness16.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cjxuia/LASD2019Ap8Speakers_Y01.mp3 Location: LASD Covington MPR, the evening of Ap 8, 2019, a board meeting. Here are 42+ Los Altos School District residing individuals - mainly LASD parents -  telling LASD Trustees what they think of the proposed 10-year agreement to place Bullis Charter School exclusively on the Egan campus starting 2023 - 2025.   The proposal stipulates that almost 3 acres along San Antonio would be carved out for teacher housing.  The students in the existing Egan attendance area would MOVE to a brand new campus on the Kohls 10th site...about 9.6 acres no earlier than 2023...and as late as 2025.  The land there - worth up to $150M -  is anticipated to cost the District $30-40M, after  Transfer of Development Rights (TDRs) permitted by the City of Mountain View.  In the interim till 2023 - 2025, BCS would remain split at Egan and Blach.  Portables would be added to Egan....Not to Loyola as would be necessary if this 10-year agreement is not approved and instead the District has to provide a Prop 39 facilitie... Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:24:54 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cjxuia/LASD2019Ap8Speakers_Y01.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cjxuia/LASD2019Ap8Speakers_Y01.mp3 Location: LASD Covington MPR, the evening of Ap 8, 2019, a board meeting. Here are 42+ Los Altos School District residing individuals - mainly LASD parents -  telling LASD Trustees what they think of the proposed 10-year agreement to place Bullis Charter School exclusively on the Egan campus starting 2023 - 2025.   The proposal stipulates that almost 3 acres along San Antonio would be carved out for teacher housing.  The students in the existing Egan attendance area would MOVE to a brand new campus on the Kohls 10th site...about 9.6 acres no earlier than 2023...and as late as 2025.  The land there - worth up to $150M -  is anticipated to cost the District $30-40M, after  Transfer of Development Rights (TDRs) permitted by the City of Mountain View.  In the interim till 2023 - 2025, BCS would remain split at Egan and Blach.  Portables would be added to Egan....Not to Loyola as would be necessary if this 10-year agreement is not approved and instead the District has to provide a Prop 39 facilitie... Fri, 12 Apr 2019 00:24:54 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cjxuia/LASD2019Ap8Speakers_Y01.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/64chh8/Loud_LASD_VladamirIvanovich_01.mp3 Audio Summary: Trustee Ivanovich's remarks at the board meeting...'I have many BCS parents as friends...every charter child costs the district $4000...there will be from half a school to 1 1/2 school of NEW students in NEC within 20 years...Margaret Abe-Koga violated norms when she introduced the idea to move Egan...All this noise in the community about being fiscally conservative is just BCS trying to prevent us from buying the 10th site so it will not be possible to put BCS on it.  They are being so secretive.'   About 3 minutes. Notice: I present the LASD Trustees remarks -- probably scripted and rehearsed --  i n toto so you can hear them unfiltered for yourself.  Lalahpolitico is so disappointed that in reaction to the tough mediated negotiations going on to the renew the five-year agreement between BCS and LASD,  the District is 'leaking' and has decided to engage in ugly, divisive, misleading, and sometimes flat-out untrue propaganda. Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:48:56 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/64chh8/Loud_LASD_VladamirIvanovich_01.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/64chh8/Loud_LASD_VladamirIvanovich_01.mp3 Audio Summary: Trustee Ivanovich's remarks at the board meeting...'I have many BCS parents as friends...every charter child costs the district $4000...there will be from half a school to 1 1/2 school of NEW students in NEC within 20 years...Margaret Abe-Koga violated norms when she introduced the idea to move Egan...All this noise in the community about being fiscally conservative is just BCS trying to prevent us from buying the 10th site so it will not be possible to put BCS on it.  They are being so secretive.'   About 3 minutes. Notice: I present the LASD Trustees remarks -- probably scripted and rehearsed --  i n toto so you can hear them unfiltered for yourself.  Lalahpolitico is so disappointed that in reaction to the tough mediated negotiations going on to the renew the five-year agreement between BCS and LASD,  the District is 'leaking' and has decided to engage in ugly, divisive, misleading, and sometimes flat-out untrue propaganda. Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:48:56 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/64chh8/Loud_LASD_VladamirIvanovich_01.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/64chh8/Loud_LASD_VladamirIvanovich_01.mp3 Audio Summary: Trustee Ivanovich's remarks at the board meeting...'I have many BCS parents as friends...every charter child costs the district $4000...there will be from half a school to 1 1/2 school of NEW students in NEC within 20 years...Margaret Abe-Koga violated norms when she introduced the idea to move Egan...All this noise in the community about being fiscally conservative is just BCS trying to prevent us from buying the 10th site so it will not be possible to put BCS on it.  They are being so secretive.'   About 3 minutes. Notice: I present the LASD Trustees remarks -- probably scripted and rehearsed --  i n toto so you can hear them unfiltered for yourself.  Lalahpolitico is so disappointed that in reaction to the tough mediated negotiations going on to the renew the five-year agreement between BCS and LASD,  the District is 'leaking' and has decided to engage in ugly, divisive, misleading, and sometimes flat-out untrue propaganda. Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:48:56 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/64chh8/Loud_LASD_VladamirIvanovich_01.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cttpba/Loud_LASD_BryanJohnson_01.mp3 Audio Summary: Trustee Johnson's remarks at the board meeting...'Why does  BCS [ aka the confidential 5-year agreement negotiation team] say a brand new facility 1/2 mile from the charter unthinkable? Why do BCS negotiators on that team say [in confidence] that would like to grow to 1800?  Why is this BCS unwilling to move to Kohls, yet some BCS individuals are willing to start a new charter school there?  They are so untransparent.' About 3 minutes . Lalahpolitico: And why is Bryan Johnson leaking these private BCS remarks, violating the mediated negotiations agreement. In contrast... Why is the LASD so secretive about the details of its deal with Federal Realty Trust for Kohls...How much is it going to cost really? Oh yeah, that particular FRT negotiation, but not the BCS one,  is the only negotiation the District thinks needs to remain private! Notice: I present the LASD Trustees remarks -- probably scripted and rehearsed --  i n toto so you can hear them unfiltered for yourself.  Lala... Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:31:35 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cttpba/Loud_LASD_BryanJohnson_01.mp3 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cfvcd7/Loud_LASD_SangeethPeruri_01.mp3 Audio Summary: Trustee Peruri's divisive remarks at the board meeting...'It is regrettable that the years of great cooperation between Lasd and BCS seem to be over. They told the demographer their growth plans, and now we asked them to present them to us. But they won't. So secretive and untransparent. There are dire effects on District families and on BCS families of this 'unplanned' growth.  special needs...costs of reconfiguring schools...2-3 schools will close... '   About 6 minutes. Notice: I present the LASD Trustees remarks -- probably scripted and rehearsed --  i n toto so you can hear them unfiltered for yourself.  Lalahpolitico is so disappointed that in reaction to the tough mediated negotiations going on to the renew the five-year agreement between BCS and LASD,  the District is 'leaking' and has decided to engage in ugly, divisive, misleading, and sometimes flat-out untrue propaganda. Sat, 15 Sep 2018 22:17:12 +0000 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cfvcd7/Loud_LASD_SangeethPeruri_01.mp3